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9 Dec 2015, 12:12 pm
Jessica Gustafson and Abby Pendleton, founding partners of The Health Law Partners, P.C., practice in all areas of healthcare law devoting a substantial portion of their practice on Recovery Audit Contracts and Medicare audit appeals. [read post]
8 Dec 2015, 2:22 pm
In 2009, the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the department that administers Medicare and Medicaid, announced the creation of an interagency task force called the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT), to increase coordination and optimize criminal and civil enforcement. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 2:32 pm
-led coalition grows, Secretary of State John Kerry said that the Islamic State could not be defeated through the exclusive use of airstrikes and stressed the importance of bolstering moderate Syrian and Arab rebel militias. [read post]
30 Nov 2015, 9:30 pm
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) claims. [read post]
30 Nov 2015, 4:00 am
Department of Health & Human Services, Office of The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, this family is “below the poverty line” if the income of the household is less than $24,250. [read post]
26 Nov 2015, 9:30 pm
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a 30-day extension for comments on its proposed revisions to its policy governing federal agencies’ research of human subjects, after receiving numerous requests for additional time to review what some critics have called “vague” and “complex” revisions. [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 6:01 am
The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) now accepts that long periods in segregation are not conducive to prisoner health or correctional goals—these facts are not in dispute. [read post]
19 Oct 2015, 2:24 am
The Panopticon blog has a post about the decision in W, X, Y and Z v Secretary of State for Health, Secretary of State for the Home Department and British Medical Association [2015] EWCA Civ 1034 concerning the sharing of medical information. [read post]
10 Oct 2015, 10:01 pm
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell went up to the hill to tell Congress that, when finishing up the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, their two departments will be sure to color only inside the lines. [read post]
2 Oct 2015, 9:50 am
Burwell, the secretary of health and human services, decrease Medicare payment rates for therapy in nursing homes. [read post]
30 Sep 2015, 4:26 pm
Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), the Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange (TRACIE) features resource materials, a help line, just-in-time suggestions and tools to share information gleaned from real-life experiences in preparing for, responding to and recovering from disasters…ASPR developed TRACIE with a network of experts nationwide… [read post]
21 Sep 2015, 11:31 am
Following Friday’s discussions between the U.S. and Russian defense secretaries as well as calls for further diplomatic efforts, Secretary Kerry urged Russia to facilitate Assad’s exit from power. [read post]
10 Sep 2015, 11:20 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Wednesday ruled [text, PDF] that Republican members of the House of Representatives have standing to sue the Secretaries of the Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Treasury regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). [read post]
9 Sep 2015, 10:01 pm
The STEC working group, chaired by Alison O’Brien of Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Carolyn Hovde of the University of Idaho, will try to answer questions about virulence (e.g., what defines or differentiates STEC as a human pathogen from other STEC that are under-represented in severe illnesses?) [read post]
18 Aug 2015, 10:03 pm
The Department of Health and Human Services is currently reviewing nominations to fill 30 seats on the council, which is charged with supporting the implementation of President Obama’s executive order. [read post]
12 Aug 2015, 9:51 am
Although the Buy Indian Act originally applied only to the Department of the Interior (which houses the BIA), Congress transferred certain Indian healthcare functions to the Department of Health and Human Services in 1955. [read post]
6 Aug 2015, 6:21 pm
David Fontaine is Executive Vice President, Chief Legal & Administrative Officer and Corporate Secretary of Altegrity, a privately held company that among other entities, owns Kroll’s data breach response services. [read post]
21 Jul 2015, 7:50 am
The legislation includes a variety of offsets to pay for new costs, including provisions related to Medicare drug and durable medical equipment payment policy, Medicare imaging reimbursement, and civil monetary penalties in cases of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grant or contract fraud, among others (see our related posts on Health Industry Washington Watch). [read post]
20 Jul 2015, 9:37 pm
Department of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to impose, by regulation, other requirements as needed to protect against program or patient abuse. [read post]
20 Jul 2015, 4:45 pm
Department of Health and Human Services today launched the first online collection of the federal resources and capabilities available to mitigate the health impacts of emergencies. [read post]
